Those engaged in the establishment and fostering of Unbounded Church Missional Communities require a ‘Toolbox’ of skills.
This Section will be devoted to providing some resources for the gaining of such skills.
Those engaged in the establishment and fostering of Unbounded Church Missional Communities require a ‘Toolbox’ of skills.
This Section will be devoted to providing some resources for the gaining of such skills.
Embedding missional communities in the public domain provides an opportunity to meet, serve and build relationships with non-Christians and so draw them into the missional community.
It is reported that up to 60% of Australians do not know an active Christian. Whatever the case it is certainly true that the church has become disconnected from a large proportion of our potential gospel mission field before we even start. This is the primary problem, for if Christians are not building relationships with…
To grow a Missional Community (MC), by whatever means, requires the gathering of those contacted into that community. This can be done in a number of ways:- a) It is already done in the case of such activities as Missional Playgroups or Youth churches, or other age or interest based groups. Some existing examples are,…
Discipleship – Beyond Conversion Every now and then I return to thinking about Jesus’ instruction to his followers to go and make disciples. “Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I…
Mathematical analysis of attendance data makes it quite clear that in order to reverse the current trends of decline, the required rate of increase in the number of Christian fellowships simply cannot be achieved by ‘Classic’ church planting using a strategy of ‘adding’ largely standard size congregations